I feel your pain! When I fed my very first snake for the first time (f/t) I remember flinching terribly. It wasn't scared of being bitten, it was that they just move so dang fast! My first corn snake's cage was under a shelf and I remember several occasions of bruising my knuckles when I went to feed (the cage was a couple inches under it and I pulled the cage out some, but still managed to hit the shelf).

I agree it's much easier to just not watch. That way you don't even know it's coming! I have to get blood tests done a lot and I still have to look away when the needle goes in or I'll freak out, but afterwards I'm fine. And tongs are best as well. That way you have a very tiny chance of even being bitten